Captain C.V. Meeden
January 6, 1910
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Captain C.V. Meeden of Yuma, who has been in Phoenix for the
last two days, is an old Arizona pioneer of the older school,
dating his residence since 1869, when he came to Yuma as a
river captain in the employ of one of the big companies then
engaged in the navigation of the Colorado. For ten years he
lived on the raging waters of the Colorado, except such
intervening periods as his good ship was stuck on one sand
bar or another, which periods were frequent but of short
duration. He left the billowy wave to mingle in territorial
and county politics to the extent that in 1880 Governor John
C. Fremont the pathfinder; appointed him superintendent of the
territorial prison, which position he also held under Governor
F.A. Tritle. He has always been prominent in Yuma County
affairs and is now assessor of the county and chairman of
the board of trustees of Yuma school district.
Of his assessorship he is quite proud and has reason to be.
When he was elected to the office Yuma was a third class
county, but by increasing the thoroughness of the work in
the assessors's office as asxiliary to the natural increase
of valuations. Yuma is now in the rank of the first class
counties. The captain comes to Phoenix but seldom but knows
many people here and all over the territory in fact, and
when he does have business here he finds the office of his
oldtime townsman, Surveyor General Ingalls, a peaceful and
pleasant harbor.